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Main Authors: Kong, Xinbing, Wu, Bin, Ye, Wuyi
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07607
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author Kong, Xinbing
Wu, Bin
Ye, Wuyi
author_facet Kong, Xinbing
Wu, Bin
Ye, Wuyi
contents In this paper, we propose a price staleness factor model that accounts for pervasive market friction across assets and incorporates relevant covariates. Using large-panel high-frequency data, we derive the maximum likelihood estimators of the regression coefficients, the nonstationary factors, and their loading parameters. These estimators recover the time-varying price staleness probabilities. We develop asymptotic theory in which both the dimension $d$ and the sampling frequency $n$ tend to infinity. Using a local principal component analysis (LPCA) approach, we find that the efficient price co-volatilities (systematic and idiosyncratic) are biased downward due to the presence of staleness. We provide bias-corrected estimators for both the spot and integrated systematic and idiosyncratic co-volatilities, and prove that these estimators are robust to data staleness. Interestingly, besides their dependence on the dimensionality $d$, the integrated plug-in estimates converge at a rate of $n^{-1/2}$ without requiring correcting term, whereas the local PCA estimates converge at a slower rate of $n^{-1/4}$. This validates the aggregation efficiency achieved through nonlinear, nonstationary factor analysis via maximum likelihood estimation. Numerical experiments justify our theoretical findings. Empirically, we demonstrate that the staleness factor provides unique explanatory power for cross-sectional risk premia, and that the staleness correction reduces out-of-sample portfolio risk.
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spellingShingle Staleness Factors and Volatility Estimation at High Frequencies
Kong, Xinbing
Wu, Bin
Ye, Wuyi
Statistics Theory
In this paper, we propose a price staleness factor model that accounts for pervasive market friction across assets and incorporates relevant covariates. Using large-panel high-frequency data, we derive the maximum likelihood estimators of the regression coefficients, the nonstationary factors, and their loading parameters. These estimators recover the time-varying price staleness probabilities. We develop asymptotic theory in which both the dimension $d$ and the sampling frequency $n$ tend to infinity. Using a local principal component analysis (LPCA) approach, we find that the efficient price co-volatilities (systematic and idiosyncratic) are biased downward due to the presence of staleness. We provide bias-corrected estimators for both the spot and integrated systematic and idiosyncratic co-volatilities, and prove that these estimators are robust to data staleness. Interestingly, besides their dependence on the dimensionality $d$, the integrated plug-in estimates converge at a rate of $n^{-1/2}$ without requiring correcting term, whereas the local PCA estimates converge at a slower rate of $n^{-1/4}$. This validates the aggregation efficiency achieved through nonlinear, nonstationary factor analysis via maximum likelihood estimation. Numerical experiments justify our theoretical findings. Empirically, we demonstrate that the staleness factor provides unique explanatory power for cross-sectional risk premia, and that the staleness correction reduces out-of-sample portfolio risk.
title Staleness Factors and Volatility Estimation at High Frequencies
topic Statistics Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07607